Substack announced "Substack Notes", which is obviously a Twitter clone. Then, Twitter has disabled likes and retweets of _ANY_ post mentioning "substack". Today: we are seeing the lines form of the Substack supporters vs Twitter supporters.
Its no longer possible to host a blog on Substack and post links to that blog on Twitter. (Well... its "possible", but your links ain't gonna attract a lot of traffic without retweets or likes, so more like its pointless) So the bloggers using Substack are forced to choose.
- A significant fraction of Substacks growth has been popular Twitter users monetising their audience. Twitter should have build Substack, I think it's obvious that they will be launching an equivalent product as they become revenue focused.
- Substack just launched "Substack Notes" which looks like a mini Twitter: https://on.substack.com/p/introducing-notes
The outgoing CEO posted to it the day before it was scrapped.
(This is before other, more basic criticisms of Substack, like that it seems to have really only had success with a small group of bloggers who I would pay money not to be exposed to.)